Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works

[Diamond18]

Welcome to the latest game of Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works.

52 contestants from 5 tribes vie for the title of Most Major Minor. Get out your minor works, boys and girls, because you'll need to re-read just to figure who some of these characters are. :D

Rules for play are as follows:

Each day vote for who you want to see expelled from the game. Votes will be tallied and the character with the most votes will die or be banished. If there are any ties, the characters tied for the most votes will bite the dust together.

Each day will last 24 hours, starting and ending at Midnight CST (DST). Right now it is 9 PM CST (DST) Sunday April 9th so this first day will be slightly longer, ending at 12 AM Tuesday April 11th.

Vote for who you want gone, thusly:

+ + Tom Bombadil

Votes are retractable up to the deadline and should be done thusly:

- - Tom Bombadil

All votes will be counted, but please give reasons for your votes. Reasons need not be strictly Tolkien related, but reasons should have something to do with the stories, characters, or the game.

The tribes and contestants are as follows:

Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Tom Bombadil
Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll
Perry-the-Winkle

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
Princess Pam
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

~~~~~~~~~~

First day begins now. Have fun!

[Diamond18]

Um *cough*, guys, these characters aren't that obscure. I know who they all are, after all. :p

If you want a nudge in the beginning direction, I should say I rather expect a fight over old Bombadillo, though I have no control over the matter and it's all up to you people to vote. :smokin:

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I know the minor works and their characters well, but I don't have the time to get involved in a game like this, especially not now before the Easter holiday weekend - sorry!

[Diamond18]

Actually Esty with Survivor you can pop in and out of the game as time and inclination permit... so if you ever have a hankerin' to toss in your two cents don't hesitiate. :)

[Formendacil]

How untoward! Championing the reign of the heir before the predecessor is dead and buried?

Do you honestly expect me to begin killing... er voting... off people here before Tar-Míriel... I mean, before I've officially counted the votes for my own game?

Pffffle!!!

++ Sunny Sam

What kind of a medieval name is that? I mean, "Sunny" sounds vaguely hippy, modernish... More the name of a cartoon character than a blacksmith.

And Sam Gamgee already has dibs on the name "Sam".

[The Saucepan Man]

I should say I rather expect a fight over old Bombadillo ...I'd hate to disappoint ...

+ + TOM BOMBADIL

Those "hey dol merry dols" really begin to grate after a while. Rather like Elrond's "tra la la lallies". :rolleyes:

[Anguirel]

Only Mr Bliss is entirely unknown to me; I've read Roverandom but completely forgotten the contents...

++PRINCESS PAM

Clearly a case of that villainous Tolkien fellow plagiarising Sony's Mariocart, just like the time when he infamously stole the plot of EA Games: Lord of the Rings, and the occasion when he imported the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter.

Honestly, the man should be arrested. Next he'll try ripping off Peter Jackson's Oscar winning masterpiece, The Return of King Kong or whatever.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, since I can do this without committing myself for the whole game, I will cast a vote for

++The Mewlips

just because they creep me out - and because their poem aggravates me, as it has no direct quotes that I can use for the "minor works" quotes and Palantír threads!

Maybe I need to quote a few lines from the poem to prove my point:
The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink...

You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door...

You go to find the Mewlips - and the Mewlips feed.

Who wants to have creatures like that around?! When they say they want to have you over for dinner, the invitation could be the last one you accept!

[Elu Ancalime]

I need to get around to reading Roverandom, so um, raincheck on this game for a little bit....

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[The 1,000 Reader]

++Everyone other than Tom Bombadil.

Who the heck are they?

Tom saved the hobbits twice. That's worth some merit.

[arcticstorm]

++The Giant from the Wild Hills

HE boasts about his exploits to the unknown lands but was driven off by a stout little farmer and his talking dog!!! And in order to save face, he claims that the farmer's blunderbuss was a large number of mosquitos!! He is a fool, he should go

[Diamond18]

++Everyone other than Tom Bombadil.

Perhaps I should have mentioned this before, but, you can only vote for one character at a time. Everyone other than Tom is 51 contestants. ;)

[The Only Real Estel]

++PRINCESS PAM

Princesses are all right in their own way, but in this case I'd much rather see her go then old Bombadil. *glares at Sauice* :p

And besides that...bandwagoning is such fun! :D

[The 1,000 Reader]

Perhaps I should have mentioned this before, but, you can only vote for one character at a time. Everyone other than Tom is 51 contestants. ;)



Hey, it's better than 51 single posts.;)

I personally don't think we should have a survivor so soon after a survivor just ended.

just in case...++Sea-serpent.

We already have a freaky water monster and it's the watcher.

[Firefoot]

I must admit that I know remarkably few of these characters, having only read some of Roverandom and being familiar with the Tom Bombadil set of characters from LotR...

However, even though I don't mind Tom as much as I used to, I still can't sit by and watch him get anywhere close to the end...

++Hey derry dol's
++Tom Bombadil

[Diamond18]

The inaugural day of Minor Works Survivor began slowly, with the judges warily eyeing many of the unfamiliar contestants. Votes, when they came, were varied. At the end, two unlucky characters ended up tied:

Tom Bombadil: 2 votes

Princess Pam: 2 votes

Sunny Sam: 1 vote

The Mewlips: 1 vote

The Giant from the Wild Hills: 1 vote

The Sea-serpent: 1 vote

And so, Tom and Pam were literally trussed up together and heaved into the Sea. Tom gave a cry of "Hey derry dol!" with a mysterious wink and Pam, being the Princess of the Sea, simply smiled as she returned to her home with a mighty splash.

Day the Second finds 50 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll
Perry-the-Winkle

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Sea-serpent.

Stop eating the people on our beaches. Middle-Earth is losing economy.

[Anguirel]

++MR BINKS

Along with the rest of his villainous crew, this shady character refuses to reveal his first name. He's obviously a Colombian coke dealer, a Mafioso or a CIA operative.

See you, Giovanni! Not so blasted secretive now!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I suggest we send

++Perry-the-Winkle

away.

He is definitely not thinking of the general welfare of the others, since he eats up all of the food and leaves none for his fellow villagers.

[The Saucepan Man]

+ + MR PARISH

Not only is he inconsiderate of Niggle during his lifetime, but he goes and plagues him in his afterlife too. ;)

[Bêthberry]

+ + PRINCESS MEE

Do we really need to reflect on this one?

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + Mer-dog

The S.P.O.C.S.T. (Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Stone Trolls) sees this vote as a preemptive
strike against future trolls being confused by terms
such as "Burra-hobbits" which tend to
confuse their not capacious intellects.

P.S. Food for thought: for future Survivors, what about an
all-girl Survivors, all-hobbit, and perhaps the most
interesting (certainly the bloodiest) an all-orc Survivor?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

++Perry-the-Winkle

Yeah, what she says. :D

(I'll be doing this until I've read some of the minor works.)

[Diamond18]

The second round of voting found more wide-spread opinions on who should go, but only one contestant became the victim of collaberation.

Perry-the-Winkle: 2 votes

The Sea-serpent: 1 vote

Mr. Binks: 1 vote

Mr. Parish: 1 vote

Princess Mee: 1 vote

Mer-dog: 1 vote

And so, Perry-the-Winkle was butchered and his copious amounts of fat were made into butter and spread onto bread. Thus the Poems Tribe took yet another hit.

Day the Third finds 49 remaining contestants:

Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale
The Sea-serpent

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Fattie Dorkins
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Sea-serpent.

You woke Ulmo up and now he's cranky. Thanks for sending a hurricane to Middle-Earth.

[Alcarillo]

++Fattie Dorkins

Poor guy, his name is Fattie Dorkins. Imagine how the schoolkids must tease him! He must be traumatized, having the silliest name on the island. I can just imagine the Latin and Greek named characters picking on him. So he doesn't get too depressed, I'm voting him off the island and back to civilization where he can change his name to something more dignified.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Alcarillo has unwittingly revealed a shocking
bit of bigotry by JRRT, to wit, his anti-large people
agenda. (Fattie Dorkins, Fatty Lumpkin, Fatty Bolger-
the noblest hobbit of them all). But then again
they are his works, so:
+ + Fattie Dorkins

And let's hope there's no elf singing of
Fat people got no right to live.

[The Saucepan Man]

Alcarillo has unwittingly revealed a shocking bit of bigotry by JRRT, to wit, his anti-large people agenda. ... which you are condoning by voting for the fat one. :rolleyes: ;)

+ + MR PARISH

... again. I never liked the chap. He treated Niggle abysmally.

[arcticstorm]

He usurped the throne, he was nothing more than the pawn of a dragon!! Why do we need him?

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo

[Estelyn Telcontar]

1,000 Readers can't be wrong, can they? At any rate, the argument for the

++Sea-serpent

is convincing, and I don't like deep water anyway and certainly not storms at sea - except when they're patchwork patterns!


(Storm at Sea (http://www.frommarti.com/storm.html) patchwork pattern)

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

++King Augustus Bonifacius

He's greedy and lazy. Can someone explain why we're keeping him around?

[Alcarillo]

You know, Tuor in Gondolin, I think we're onto something. Just look at the descrimination against Bombur in the Hobbit. When at Beorn's house, Gandalf instructs the dwarves to enter by twos. Listen to what he says to Bombur:
Bombur is fattest and will do for two, he had better come alone and last.
Shockingly rude! And in Mirkwood, when crossing the enchanted river, Bombur simply asks not to cross last, and is immediately insulted by Thorin.
"I'm always last and I don't like it," said Bombur. "It's somebody else's turn today."

"You should not be so fat."
It is undeniable! Tolkien was against large people! :eek:

[Diamond18]

The third round ended late because the moddess forgot all about it, but even this was not enough to save two minor characters:

Fattie Dorkins: 2 votes

The Sea-serpent: 2 votes

Mr. Parish: 1 vote

Farmer Giles: 1 vote

King Augustus: 1 vote


And so, with cries of, "Tolkien was against fat people, and if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for us!" the judges fed Fattie Dorkins to The Sea-serpent. Then they slaughtered the Sea-serpent and made it into chic purses, boots, belts, watch straps, and hat bands.

Day the Fourth finds 47 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Binks
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[The Only Real Estel]

++ Mr. Binks

As was brought up before it's very suspicious that he refuses to reveal his first name. And we all know what a disaster the last "Binks*" was. :eek:


*If you're not thinking Star Wars, you should be...

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes

The guy's too much into "tough love" with
a thing against toy dogs.

[Formendacil]

++ Mr. Binks

As was brought up before it's very suspicious that he refuses to reveal his first name. And we all know what a disaster the last "Binks*" was. :eek:


*If you're not thinking Star Wars, you should be...

I second the motion. And decisions based on the meanings and/or sounds pertaining to names is VERY Tolkienian. Just look at "The Problem of Ros" or "The Shibboleth of Fëanor".

++ Mr. (Jar Jar) Binks

[The Only Real Estel]

And decisions based on the meanings and/or sounds pertaining to names is VERY Tolkienian. Just look at "The Problem of Ros" or "The Shibboleth of Fëanor."

I second that blindly. :p

[Anguirel]

At last. The end of the line for the Godfather, and I'm not talking about Berlusconi, ho ho.

++SIGNOR BINKS, CAPO DEI CAPI

[Estelyn Telcontar]

If we're going for a character from the story of Mr. Bliss, I think we should get rid of

++Sergeant Boffin

- after all, when he was called upon to act, he was not needed at all. So why should we need him now?!

[Alcarillo]

++Psamathos Psamathides

For sending Rover to the moon without an explanation or much of a reason. And besides, he just sleeps in the sand all day and doesn't help the other survivors with their island duties at all.

[Diamond18]

With the fourth round of voting came the largest margin of agreement yet:

Mr. Binks: 3 votes

The Wizard Artaxerxes: 1 vote

Sergeant Boffin: 1 vote

Psamathos Psamathides: 1 vote

And so, Mr. Binks was made an offer he could not refuse, and put in a rocket ship to be sent to a galaxy far, far away.

Day the Fifth finds 46 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Nokes
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Great White Dragon
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Bliss
Girabbit
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Anguirel]

I suddenly have an overpowering desire to give the Adventures of Tom Bombadil a proper read. In the spirit of modern idleness, is it online somewhere?

I'm going to go straight to the leading offender today. This Bliss character is another conniving pseudonymed sneak. "Bliss"? What kind of name is that? Sounds like slang for some kind of substance if you ask me...

++MR BLISS

[Diamond18]

Sorry, Ang, not that I know of.

[The Only Real Estel]

No, no, lets leave a few respectable "Mr.'s" around Ang.

Instead, I vote ++ The Great White Dragon

Come on, everyone knows dragons should be green or red or black, some cool color! White? Who's white but Gandalf (when he's cloaked at least...well actually - no nevermind!)? It's a poor excuse for a Dragon I say. At the very least it could've basked in the sun awhile and been called something truly fearsome like "The Great Tan Dragon."

Great White? Bah Humbug. Only if there were sharks in Tolkien's works...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I vote for

++Nokes.

Poor cooking may be better than none, but who really wants to have a mediocre cook around? Besides, he thinks he's the one doing the work, while actually letting his apprentice do it for him. And he doesn't recognize Faerie even when in the presence of the King of Faery for years. His team will be better off without him.

[Diamond18]

I'm ending this round half an hour early because I'm tired, my shoulder hurts, and I want to go to bed. So! The fifth round was extremely quiet, with only three judges weighing in. Thus came about the dreaded Trifecta, and three characters got the boot:

Mr. Bliss: 1 vote

The Great White Dragon: 1 vote

Nokes: 1 vote

And so, Mr. Bliss was put in a car and rolled off a cliff into the sea, the Dragon was beset by little dogs until he flew away on his own accord, and Nokes was baked into a cake.

Day the Sixth finds 43 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Psamothos Psamathides
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Anguirel]

Why so quiet everyone? Have some spirit!

The Greek/Persian feud is causing promlems in the Roverandom tribe. We need to get rid of

++PSAMATHOS PSAMATHIDES

before he causes serious injury to the Wizard Artaxerxes...

[Formendacil]

Now is that any way to go rousing up debate, Anguirel? You really must learn to do it properly... Half the 'Downers around here probably can't even pronounce Psamathos Psamathides- at least not without getting their tongues tied in knots.

If you want some roaring debate you need to aim at the big names, the names with connections to the beloved Legendarium.

++ Uin

Who, if I am not mistaken, actually has a mention or two in the HoME as the great whale that ferried the Eldar to Valinor.

As a reasoning, I say that we remove him from this childish tale so that he may return to the great tale that is the History of the Noldor- your precious Noldor, Anguirel...

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Polar Bear

What? The Father Christmas Letters aren't included! Well, then,
in Priscilla's Revenge let's eliminate one of JRRT's boys. :)

+ + The Little Boy

[The 1,000 Reader]

Now is that any way to go rousing up debate, Anguirel? You really must learn to do it properly... Half the 'Downers around here probably can't even pronounce Psamathos Psamathides- at least not without getting their tongues tied in knots.


++ Uin

Who, if I am not mistaken, actually has a mention or two in the HoME as the great whale that ferried the Eldar to Valinor.

As a reasoning, I say that we remove him from this childish tale so that he may return to the great tale that is the History of the Noldor- your precious Noldor, Anguirel...



I'll take a chance and say the s is silent and it's pronounced pa-math-os-pa-math-ides.


++Uin.

For the reasons For stated and also, he's not minor enough. He's from the world of Middle-Earth and not a minor work. So, like Bombadil, he's not qualified.

[Alcarillo]

++Psamathos Psamathides

1. His name is unpronouncable, and he always gets angry when you don't say the all the P's.

2. Ang's right. Psamathos spending time alone on a desert island with Artaxerxes is sure to reopen old Greek/Persian wounds. And it is almost certain that the Latin-named characters of the Farmer Giles tribe will team up with Psamathos and horribly injure poor Artaxerxes. For Artaxerxes' safety, we should get rid of Psamathos.

[The Only Real Estel]

++ Princess Mee

Look, I'm all for female participation (of course! :D), but it's these prim-and-proper-princesses that really get under my skin. Mee doesn't hold a candle to the likes of Goldberry, and she should've been gone what - four days ago when Bethberry so astutely said:

Originally Posted by Bethberry:
+ + PRINCESS MEE

Do we really need to reflect on this one?

I trust we'll do the right thing this time around and show Mee the door...

[littlemanpoet]

++Psamathos Psamathides

Anybody with a Greek name who sends dogs as toys to the moon ought to be done away with.

[Diamond18]

*insert witty summation of day six here*
*follow with result*

Psamothos Psamathides: 3 votes

Uin, the Whale: 2 votes

The Little Boy: 1 vote

Princess Mee: 1 vote


And so, P.P. was buried so deep under the sand he was unable to dig himself out, and eventually he became a fossil in the sedimentary rock.


Note: this next day will last 48 hours, due to the holiday.

Day the Seventh finds 42 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Albert Dorkins
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Anguirel]

++THE LITTLE BOY

Obviously far too young to compete.

[littlemanpoet]

++ King Augustus Bonifacious clearly is far too full of himself and deserves death or at least banishment. Cowardly and too concerned about style instead of running a kingdom. So there.

[Formendacil]

++ The-Man-in-the-Moon

Again, a character from the canon, moonlighting in the Minor Works... Not that he's a particularly intelligent fellow, his main role in the canon being to get drunk in a fictitious version of the Prancing Pony.

[The 1,000 Reader]

++ The-Man-in-the-Moon

Again, a character from the canon, moonlighting in the Minor Works... Not that he's a particularly intelligent fellow, his main role in the canon being to get drunk in a fictitious version of the Prancing Pony.



What he said, but smarter.:p


++Man-In-The-Moon.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

But if we send the Man-in-the-Moon away too soon, who's to help Roverandom when he gets into trouble?

I would much prefer to get rid of one of the Dorkins - who needs three of them, and what important purpose do they fulfill anyway? Albert is the second fattest Dorkins, and his short legs make him slow - sounds like a good choice, as he won't be able to run away from capture, right?

++Albert Dorkins

[Anguirel]

I'm swayed by Esty here. Blasted Dorkinses, so many of them. I smell nepotism in the works.

--THE LITTLE BOY, ++ALBERT DORKINS

[The Saucepan Man]

I feel like sticking up for the little fat boy. There's been enough fatism on this thread already ... :p

++ The Man-in-the-Moon

Becuase he sits in the sky all high and mighty, only deigns to come down to earth when he feels like a drink, and then ends up getting drunk and raucous and ruining everyone's (unusually dark) evening.

[The Only Real Estel]

+ + Albert Dorkins

Esty put it well - we really don't need him much.

The Man-in-the-Moon, on the other hand, knows how to have fun (see Frodo's song about him in the Prancing Pony); and I can't stand to see a decent fellow like him go this early. :(

For the love of the Cow jumped over the moon line - vote Dorkins! :eek:

edit: I'm assuing this is the same Man in-the-Moon that Frodo was singing about...but not being familiar with most of the characters here has its drawbacks. Still, it's a good defense either way. ;) ;p

[littlemanpoet]

So as to save the Man-in-the-moon:

- - King Augustus Bonifacious

++ Albert Dorkins

Because of what Estelyn said. :p

[Alcarillo]

++Albert Dorkins

Being rather fat, he shouldn't be able to do much island work, and is just another mouth to feed. This puts far too much strain on his tribe's food-gathering abilities.

[Diamond18]

Actually, I'm not even 100% sure that this IS the same Man in-the-Moon that Frodo was singing about...but it's a good defense either way. ;) ;p

How many Men-in-the-Moon can there be? ;)

I almost put him in the Adventures of Tom Bombadil tribe as well, but decided not to, as that's like having the same character in twice.

[Diamond18]

A skinny mob, incensed by the gluttonous tendencies of the Dorkins family, converged upon one unfortunate contestant in particular the seventh day:

Albert Dorkins: 5 votes

Man-in-the-Moon: 3 votes

And so, whilst the little dogs laughed to see such sport, the fork ran away with the spoon, and er, wait, what was that? Not his time yet? Okay.

And so, Albert was sent to fat-camp on the other side of the island, where he was eaten by rouge wildebeasts.


Day the Eighth finds 41 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Mrs. Knight
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Anguirel]

++MRS KNIGHT on the off-chance she has some bond of kinship with Keira Knightley...

[Tuor of Gondolin]

[/B] + + Queen of Faerie [B]


Rumor has it she's a third cousin, twice removed
on her mother's side, (whatever that means :) )
to Goldberry,
And Goldberry brooks no equals!
(now that that incessant rhymer is gone and she's
back in action :D )

[The Saucepan Man]

Fattists! :p

But now that I have found a contestant that people are prepared to defend, I am going to stick with it:

++ THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON

For going out boozing of a night and leaving people stumbling about in the darkness.

[littlemanpoet]

Queen of Faerie!?!?! :eek:

What den of foul play have you been listening to whispers from?!? :p

I shall indeed defend the Man-in-the-Moon, Saucewolf.

++Mrs. Knight(ly). ;)

I'll throw in my vote with Anguirel this day and see what comes of it.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Since I agree that both the Man-in-the-Moon and the Queen of Faerie are much too important to eliminate yet, I will jump on the bandwagon and vote for

++Mrs. Knight.

Anyone want to have a banana?

[Bêthberry]

Oh, I can't even remember who Mrs. Knight is so that must be some grounds for elimination--of her if not of me! :rolleyes:

++ Mrs. Knight

[Formendacil]

Hmm.... You're most right, milord Saucepan Man... People ARE willing to defend the Man-in-the-Moon. Odd choice, that, but all the more fun to those of us interested in voting people off more than keeping people on...

++ The Man-in-the-Moon

I hear he's made of green cheese.

[The Only Real Estel]

Well, I don't think The Man-in-the-Moon deserves to win - definitly not. What kind of a message would that send to our youth? That irresponsibility and drinking is okay? Well I won't send that message! :mad:

But I do still want him around, because he knows how to have a good time & makes a marvelous fake ID. ;)

+ + Mrs. Knight

[Alcarillo]

I hear he's made of green cheese.
Then he is a wonderful food source should his tribe begin to starve.

Really, Artaxerxes, Man-in-the-Moon, and the Little Boy are the only ones in that tribe with thumbs, even, and the Little Boy doesn't really count because he's far too young to be doing dangerous island work anyways. The rest are animals. Without the Man-in-the-Moon, Artaxerxes will have too much work to handle, and the tribe will begin to starve. But oops, they got rid of the green cheese man.

:p

++Mrs. Knight

[Diamond18]

On the eighth day, the judges continued to batter the Mr. Bliss tribe, converging on Mrs. Knight in a stunning show of solidarity for two of the more canonical characters.

Mrs. Knight: 6 votes

Man-in-the-Moon: 2 votes

Queen of Faerie: 1 vote

And so, whether because of her name, her obscurity, or her banana fetish, Mrs. Knight was shown the door. And after she had seen the door, she was boiled to death in a vat of bleachwater.

:)


Day the Ninth finds 40 contestants shaking in their boots:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Mew, the Seagull
Man-in-the-Moon
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I checked out the number of members on each team, and the TB Adventure Gang has more than the others. Time to change that! I again suggest getting rid of those rapacious

++Mewlips

Who wants spooky creatures like those around, and who's to say where they choose their victims?! Why, they belong in a Werewolf game rather than here!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Barrow-wight

Even in poems they're bad guys.

[Anguirel]

++TEDDY

Like the Roosevelt of that name, he hides a subtle and devious mind behind his geniality and cuddliness. Down, snake!

[The Saucepan Man]

Hmm. What have you got against Mr Bliss, Ang? Did it give you nightmares or something? :D

Having identified a contestant that people are prepared to take action to protect I have no intention of abandoning my quarry.

+ + THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON

He should be maintaining his station on the moon of a night, not out carousing. And what kind of a job is that anyway? Being "in the moon"? What does it involve? Mooning around? Mooning? Pointless at best and discourteous at worst. We should not be encouraging this kind of behaviour.

[Formendacil]

++ The-Man-in-the-Moon

Because I am obstinate and mule-headed, and want him gone.

Also because "Moonies" and "mooning" have some rather unsavoury connotations in our society, and one has to wonder exactly where this man is...

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Man-In-The-Moon.

For reasons already said by the werewolf in ghetto armor and the guy who found religion.

[Alcarillo]

++The Barrow-wight

We shall overthrow the dictator! Members of the Downs, unite!

*waves banner* :D

[littlemanpoet]

Who wants spooky creatures like those mewlips around, and who's to say where they choose their victims?! Why, they belong in a Werewolf game rather than here!

Hmmmm.... Hmmmmm! I like that idea. :p

I've considered voting for the mewlips before, but I think the entire Mr. Bliss cast ought to go first. Just because I've never read the book and can't imagine it's any good if it's no better than Roverandom. :p So.....sine a vote has already been cast in that direction:

++ TEDDY

[Diamond18]

The defense of the Man-in-the-Moon waned on the ninth day, allowing a sneak attack by his staunchest detractors:

Man-in-the-Moon: 3 votes

The Barrow-wight: 2 votes

Teddy: 2 votes

The Mewlips: 1 vote

And so, the Man-in-the-Moon came down too soon, got spectacularly drunk, and staggered off into the deep jungle, never to be heard from again.


Day the Tenth finds 39 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins
Sergeant Boffin

[Formendacil]

Do I hear some celebrating? Yes I do! And it's coming from the Formendacil in the crowd...

Anyway, I love seeing my chosen candidate voted off. Considering my oft-contrary tactic of voting, it's sometimes been a rather rare event. And the veterans of Suvivor: The Second Age can attest to my habit of gloating after a particularly successful day. (Galadriel, anyone? :p )

Now, how to repeat this delightful event. How about...

++ Sergeant Boffin

A transplanted Hobbit if I've ever seen the name of one. "Boffin"?

Really, we should send him back to where he belongs: the Legendarium.

[The 1,000 Reader]

Now, how to repeat this delightful event. How about...

++ Sergeant Boffin

A transplanted Hobbit if I've ever seen the name of one. "Boffin"?

Really, we should send him back to where he belongs: the Legendarium.



++Sergeant Boffin.

[Anguirel]

++GIRABBIT

Sounds like a horrible evolutionary mistake. Imagine the myximatosis or however you spell it long necked leaf-eating rabbits could transmit...

[The Saucepan Man]

Do I hear some celebrating? Yes I do! And it's coming from the Formendacil in the crowd...And you can add some joyful rattling of pans to that too. :D

Still on the anti-Mr Bliss trail I see, Ang. What do you have against the book?

I do so hate voting for characters that I know nothing of (by far the majority in this game), so I shall go back to petitioning for the eviction of that troublesome neighbour ...

+ + MR PARISH

[Anguirel]

I fear what I don't know. And I denigrate what I don't read.

I want to become a member of the literary establishment, y'know, so I haven't any choice...

[Tuor of Gondolin]

+ + Girabbit

Reacting to a rumored stone troll petition,
caused by their assumption (they are stone trolls)
that a girabbit is related to a burrahobit.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I stand by my opinion that we need to get

++The Mewlips

out of here pronto! How much of the poem do I have to quote to convince people that they're very, very evil?!
The cellars where the Mewlips sit
Are deep and dank and cold
With single sickly candle lit;
And there they count their gold.
See, they're already making plans for evil projects with the prize money they haven't won yet...

[Anguirel]

I stand by my opinion that we need to get

++The Mewlips

out of here pronto! How much of the poem do I have to quote to convince people that they're very, very evil?!



I'm quite convinced of that. But I don't see why that's a reason they should go! I want to see their schemes come to dark fruition...

[Tuor of Gondolin]

I do so hate voting for characters that I know nothing of (by far the majority in this game)

That's okay, SpM. Have someone do the next Survivor
as an all-orc Survivor (although the show would probably
have to air after 10 P.M. in the United States due to language
and graphic violence). :eek:

Just had a thought. Imagine what an orc version of
Teletubbies or Mr. Rogers neighborhood
would be like.

[The Only Real Estel]

Dang, the poor Moon Man finally gave in to the relentless beatings of SpM & Form. Oh well, he wasn't my favorite to win anyway; I hope he at least gets to stop at the Inn on his way home.

+ + Uin, the Whale

For his general incompetency when it comes to challenges and his habit of lazing around like the beached whale that he is.


p.s. Wow, if not for Spell Check I would have spelled 'incompetency' wrong...that would've looked good. :D

[Tuor of Gondolin]

For his general incompetency when it comes to challenges and his habit of lazing around like the beached whale that he is.


p.s. Wow, if not for Spell Check I would have spelled 'incompetency' wrong...that would've looked good.

Yes, but if you're incompetent at spelling incompetence
why not make that like a double negative and thereby
make you competent? :cool: And why do I have a feeling
Bilbo might say something like that at a party?

[littlemanpoet]

++ The Mewlips

A creepier, less likeable creature does not exist in the minor works.

I'll bet they were cannibals into the bargain. That's enough to want them out.

[Anguirel]

To defend the wonderfully diabolic Mewlips

--GIRABBIT, ++SERGEANT BOFFIN

All these Boffins slope lazily off out of the story, and we can't have this idle example continuing to hold the position of Sergeant.

[Diamond18]

The tenth day marked yet another blow for the battered Bliss tribe:

Sergeant Boffin: 3 votes

The Mewlips: 2 votes

Girabbit: 1 vote

Mr. Parish: 1 vote

Uin, the Whale: 1 vote

And so, Sergeant Boffin was sent to the Shire, where he tried to police the hobbit population and got his helmet smashed in.


Day the Eleventh finds 38 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle
Mr. Parish

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
The Little Boy
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Alcarillo]

Because the Man-in-the-Moon was voted out the day before last, the Roverandom Tribe has been fated to a slow and painful starvation. (please see post 75 (http://ww.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=461918&postcount=75)) :p To try our best to delay this horrible death, I say we vote off whoever eats the most in that tribe. And that would be

++Uin, the Whale

But then again he could become a potential food source, sooo

- - Uin, the Whale

and

++The Little Boy

For being the least able to provide for his own food. Yes, yes, I know he's Tolkien's son, but sacrifices must be made for the survival of the tribe.

[Anguirel]

I've no objection to that. Besides, he's clearly lied to get past the age limit. Conniving wee monkey...

++THE LITTLE BOY

[The Saucepan Man]

Good call yesterday, Ang. :)

I'll stick with the selfish ...

+ + MR PARISH

... for now.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + Mr. Parish

Niggle needs to be the finalist in his category of book(s).

[The Only Real Estel]

Because the Man-in-the-Moon was voted out the day before last, the Roverandom Tribe has been fated to a slow and painful starvation. (please see post 75 (http://ww.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=461918&postcount=75)) :p To try our best to delay this horrible death, I say we vote off whoever eats the most in that tribe. And that would be

++Uin, the Whale

But then again he could become a potential food source, sooo

- - Uin, the Whale

and

++The Little Boy

For being the least able to provide for his own food. Yes, yes, I know he's Tolkien's son, but sacrifices must be made for the survival of the tribe.

Are you insinuating that The Little Boy couldn't become a potential food source, Alc? :p

Still, you're right I suppose....

+ + The Little Boy

[Formendacil]

Jumping backwards a few days to an old tactic of mine- and so as to avoid the bandwaggon paparazzi, I think it is time to restart the anti-Uin campaign.

++ Uin

What belongs in the Legendarium, should stay in the Legendarium.

[littlemanpoet]

I'm agreeable on the nattering ninnyhammer with all his nagging of Niggle.

++ Mr. Parish

[Diamond18]

The eleventh round marked yet another double send off, as two very different characters found themselves in the same boat. Literally.

The Little Boy: 3 votes

Mr. Parish: 3 votes

Uin: 1 vote

And so, Mr. Parish was consigned to a hell dimension where he was forced to fix his own roof every day for the rest of eternity, and the Little Boy was sent to bed without his supper.


Day the Twelfth finds 36 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
The Mewlips
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Formendacil]

Let's get this over with quickly.

Diamond's test says that I'm Niggle. Anyone with a grudge against Formendacil is therefore advised to vote for him.

++ Niggle

Like so. :p

[Anguirel]

++GIRABBIT

This genetically modified monster shall not escape my wrath again...

[littlemanpoet]

There ought to be three nominees.

++Mewlips

I've already given my reasons. Evil swamp things.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes

Gandalf lite must go!

[The 1,000 Reader]

Let's get this over with quickly.

Diamond's test says that I'm Niggle. Anyone with a grudge against Formendacil is therefore advised to vote for him.

++ Niggle

Like so. :p


++Niggle.



...what? You were kind of rude in the books forum when I first came here.

[Alcarillo]

++Mewlips

For being generally evil, and as a last ditch effort to start a bandwagon against the Mewlips and save Niggle.

[Bêthberry]

+ + Mewlips

I bet they caterwaul too, the miserable creatures.

[Diamond18]

Voting early on the twelfth day was wide spread, then it seemed for a time that Niggle would get the boot for being too much like the Formen man. But two late votes saved the absent minded painter and ousted the dread creatures of the swamp:

The Mewlips: 3 votes

Niggle: 2 votes

The Wizard Ataxerxes: 1 vote

Girabbit: 1 vote

And so, the Mewlips' valley was fumigated, decontaminated, detoxified, flooded, and sprayed with industrial strength RAID until the Mewlips were effectly wiped out.

*sniff* :( Diamond is sad. I can't help it, that's my favorite Tolkien poem. :p


Day the Thirteenth finds 35 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Girabbit
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Anguirel]

Nooooo! I will have my revenge!

To everyone who thought the Mewlips were really cool and besides responsible role models: arise! Oaths ye have taken!

Let's start getting the cloud-headed goody-goodies.

++SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

[The Saucepan Man]

Darn! If only I had been around yesterday, I could at least have sent that self-absorbed, muddle-headed incompetent, Niggle, packing along with the sorely lamented Mewlips.

Nooooo! I will have my revenge!

To everyone who thought the Mewlips were really cool and besides responsible role models: arise! Oaths ye have taken!

Let's start getting the cloud-headed goody-goodies.I shall rally to your banner. Wooly-headed Faerie dreamers beware!

+ + SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

And, should we succeed in this task, may I humbly suggest Niggle for tomorrow?

[littlemanpoet]

Two votes against Smith of Wootton Major!?

As you can see from my avatar, I take this rather personally.... :p .... and will fight tooth and nail for this gentle soul's survival. Besides which, votes for such an innocent soul seem rather (ahem) diabolical to me. ;)

TO ME!! TO ME!! ALL YOU GOOD SOULS WHO WOULD SPARE THE LIFE OF THE GOOD SMITH!!!! LET US OUST THE OUSTER OF OUR GOOD SMITH!!! TO ME!! TO ME!!

++ Girabbit

Surely a good alternative.

Oh, by the way, if the diabolical anti-Smith of Wootton Major contingent succeeds today, I must perforce consider my stint in this game at an end since I identify with the good fellow so closely; I would be symbolically dead, and would thus have to symbolically be dead to this thread. (hee hee it even rhymed) So help save me, please!

[Diamond18]

Whoa... *looks at LMP's avatar* *consults book* I never realized before that was Smith of Wooton Major. Where did you get a colored version? The one in my copy is... not colored.

PS - Have you tested this association in my personality test? :D

[littlemanpoet]

Whoa... *looks at LMP's avatar* *consults book* I never realized before that was Smith of Wooton Major. Where did you get a colored version? The one in my copy is... not colored.I have a book on which it's colored. And mark12_30 was kind enough to help me get that avatar; otherwise I still wouldn't have one. :rolleyes:

PS - Have you tested this association in my personality test?
Huh?
:confused:

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I will take the ring, though I do not know... oops, I mean, I will join the crusade to save the title character of one of my favorite works, Smith of Wootton Major. Down with long-necked mutations!

++The Girabbit

[Diamond18]

Huh? :confused:

Which Minor Works Protagonist Are You? (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12780)

[littlemanpoet]

Okay. Now I get it. :) Easy test to get the result you want, by the by.....

[Alcarillo]

To arms!

++Girabbit

Wierd rabbit/giraffe thing...

[littlemanpoet]

Thanks, Estelyn & Alcarillo! :D

[Bêthberry]

What's a Girabbit got to do with a pocket edition story anyhow? ;)

++Girabbit

[Celuien]

TO ME!! TO ME!! ALL YOU GOOD SOULS WHO WOULD SPARE THE LIFE OF THE GOOD SMITH!!!! LET US OUST THE OUSTER OF OUR GOOD SMITH!!! TO ME!! TO ME!!
I feel somewhat unqualified to participate in this edition since I'm only familiar with the Bombadil characters. But, um, well, it seems that I have a common interest with Elempi since Diamond's test says that I'm a Smith.

++GIRABBIT
Giraffe-rabbits are disturbing.

[The 1,000 Reader]

When you start mixing two different animals you eventually make human-like animals. I already said the result of that in the Mordor thread, and it, well, ........

..........let's just say it isn't pretty.

++Girabbit.

[Diamond18]

The Mr Bliss tribe suffered another blow on the thirteenth day, as the troops rallied around Smith of Wooton Major and deflected an attack onto the strange rabbit/giraffe hybrid....

Girabbit: 6 votes

Smith of Wooton Major: 2 votes

And so, the Girabbit was sold to a freak show for sixpence and nobody missed him.


Day the Fourteenth finds 34 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Giant from the Wild Hills
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel
Troll

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Estelyn Telcontar]

It's time we get rid of one of the Ham-sters - they haven't lost a team member yet and are probably feeling too sure of themselves by now. Let's see, the Giant doesn't have an important function in most of the story, and keeping him fed is hard on the countryside. Therefore I vote

++The Giant from the Wild Hills

[Anguirel]

Fie, fie! Not content with fumigating the Mewlips, Esty, you now persecute the Giant. Next you'll be bullying Chrysophylax.

The goody-goodies have had their fun. Now I'm going to start being positively sadistic.

++NELL

As was applied to a different literary context, "It would take a man with a heart of stone, upon reading the death of Little Nell, to resist shedding tears...of laughter."

[Estelyn Telcontar]

But the Smith team is already decimated, and it wasn't as large as others to start with. Shouldn't you pick on someone your own size, Ang?! ;) Shame on you, bullying helpless females around - and a young mother, no less!

[littlemanpoet]

In return for the favor from yesterday, I join Estelyn today.

++ Giant from the Wild Hills

He's a stupid oaf anyway that can't be harmed with a mere blunderbuss! Away with him!

[Anguirel]

I sense Phantomesque machinations! I will not lower myself to them.

But look at it this way and you'll see who's persecuting who.

Nell is a human woman.

The Giant is, naturally, a Giant.

There are no Giants around today.

But there are three billion women.

Slay these specieist murderesses before they get the chance to procreate! Down with Nell!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + Herbert Dorkins

Putting him out of his misery. He obviously
had sadistic parents, saddling him with a
name like Herbert Dork...ah, Dorkins.

[The Saucepan Man]

I see that, not content with voting of the - er - portly contestants, people are now victimising any of the contestants who don't quite fit in, in the form of the Mewlips, the Girabbit and, now, unforgiveably, the friendly neighbourhood Giant.

This cannot be tolerated. I call upon all those who have ever felt misunderstood or mistreated by society's "norms", those who have been labelled misfits or troublemakers or wierd or geeky by those who simply don't understand them, to resist this senseless victimisation of the underdogs.

(Yes, it's the " proud geeks unite" defence again. :rolleyes: :D )

My own preference is to vote again for ...

+ + SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

... who spent far too much time off on a frivolous frolic, when he should have been tending to the "real life" concerns of his job and his family.

But I will change my vote to protect, if I can, the poor, misunderstood Giant, who was only taking a refreshing stroll when he was rudely interrupted by an overly aggressive farmer with a dangerous (and most likely unlicenced) blunderbuss.

[Formendacil]

Although this forum has generally seen or discussed this horrid beast very little, I can assure you that his presence is felt elsewhere, and even on the 'Downs his shadow occasionally looms...

++ Troll

Offtopic and spiteful. Enough said.

[The Only Real Estel]

++ Troll

Offtopic and spiteful. Enough said.

Indeed.

++Troll

[Celuien]

I sense Phantomesque machinations! I will not lower myself to them.
If you're referring to my appearance, Ang, I assure you, LMP is blameless of such accusations. While we may share a past association with the famed League of Extraordinary Barrow-Downers, our current alliance is purely coincidental. And not related to any PMs of any kind. :D

I will, however, be lurking in the shadows to come to the defense of my fellow Faerie-visiting dreamer(s), should my aid be needed.

[The Saucepan Man]

Ai! I have to vote for a Troll to save a Giant? But that's no choice.

C'mon folks, given me some options here. :rolleyes:

[The Only Real Estel]

Come on now Saucie, it’s a win-win. Troll is blindingly slow, a major liability in the challenges. He also got out-thought by a rock more than once – another strike against him in challenges that happen to not require quickness. Now sure, he’s got the strength for the strength-related challenges (which are few) but Old Man Willow is a decent substitute there.

He’s stupid and ugly, kinda like the Giant only less loveable. ;)

Besides, here’s our chance to make a statement to these Downer Trolls that Form spoke of – we can put our foot down and show them that Trolling isn’t tolerated, not even for those that have a ‘sufficient excuse.’ :rolleyes:

[Celuien]

Ai! I have to vote for a Troll to save a Giant? But that's no choice.

C'mon folks, given me some options here.
Would you consider a Badger?
Then all the Badger-folk said: 'We beg your pardon!'
Horribly anti-climactic. :D

[The Saucepan Man]

He’s stupid and ugly, kinda like the Giant only less loveable.So now we're picking on those who are aesthetically and intellectually challenegd are we? The Troll we are faced with here exemplifies the misunderstood of whom I spoke earlier. He was lonely, an outcast from society, simply because he was a Troll, albeit a kindly and culinary gifted one (what is it with Tolkien and Troll chefs?).

'I steal no gold, I drink no beer,
I eat no kind of meat;
but People slam their doors in fear,
whenever they hear my feet.
O how I wish that they were neat,
and my hands were not so rough!
Yet my heart is soft, my smile is sweet,
and my cooking good enough.'

When he sets out to find a friend, he is harshly rejected by all, save for the kindly Perry-the-Winkle (who was, incidentally, cold-heartedly voted off earlier). Perry saw past the Trollish exterior to the kind heart within and took him home for tea.

No. Having revisited the poem, I cannot find it within myself to vote off the poor Troll. This is no cyberspace nuisance, but simply a gentle, kindly but misunderstood soul.

I would repeat my entreaty. Stop voting for all the misunderstood misfits and target those, such as Smith and Niggle, who are (in Tolkien's terms) the jocks of the island. :rolleyes: :D

[The Only Real Estel]

But what about these “jocks” you speak of, SpM?

Sure, sometimes you run across the stereotypical jock – arrogant, aloof, and abysmal. But often ones are termed “jocks” out of a feeling of inferiority or even envy. Targeting the Island Jocks for being jocks (the non-arrogant ones) is no better than Targeting the Island Misunderstooders for being misunderstood...er (:p).

And as for considering the feelings of the contestants - I feel their pain (yes, even Troll's now that you put it the way you do), but they signed up for the competition. Those who don't want to be laughed at shouldn't sign up to be clowns, you shouldn't audition for American Idol if you can’t bear the scathing criticism of Simon (or Sleepy :p) Cowell. You don’t sign up for Survivor without the understanding that it’s survival of the fittest.

Troll is the kind of guy that is often eliminated in Survivor – a nice guy, but in the end he just doesn’t have what it takes.

Of course we all feel sorry for him, but that there’s not much you can do about it...

[The Saucepan Man]

But often ones are termed “jocks” out of a feeling of inferiority or even envy.Nah. I'm talking about the ones who everybody loves, and don't they just know it. I have always disliked those types of contestant on shows like this. I tend to support the underdogs (but surely you know that by now).

But since I cannot, as matters stand, save the Giant without condemning the Troll, and vice versa, I shall reluctantly stand back and allow both to be removed from the firing line. Perhaps they shall be happier without all those viewers to taunt them for their imperfections. I cannot, in all conscience, vote for either.

I guess people just don't like the misfits. :(

;) :D

[The 1,000 Reader]

Although this forum has generally seen or discussed this horrid beast very little, I can assure you that his presence is felt elsewhere, and even on the 'Downs his shadow occasionally looms...

++ Troll

Offtopic and spiteful. Enough said.



++Troll.

My job is being stolen by the dang guy.

[Alcarillo]

++The Giant from the Wild Hills

For stomping noisily all over the island, eating half of what his tribe catches, and complaining about not being able to fit in the shelter.

[Diamond18]

Despite impassioned pleas for the "misunderstood", the fourteenth day marked the departure of not one but two oafish fellows:

Troll: 3 votes

The Giant from the Wild Hills: 3 votes

Smith of Wooton Major: 1 vote

His wife, Nell: 1 vote

Herbert Dorkins: 1 vote

And so, as Troll sat alone on his seat of stone, munching and mumbling on a bare old bone, the Giant squished him to an indiscernible patty whilst walking by. The Giant then slipped because of the gooey slick of Troll-flesh on his foot, and tumbled off a cliff into the ocean.


Day the Fifteenth finds 32 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
King Augustus Bonifacious
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wooton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Princess Mee
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, since you want to get rid of some of the arrogant characters, let's go for

++Princess Mee

Honestly, do we need someone who's always looking at her own reflection, Narcissus-style, and talking to herself because she thinks that's the only person worth talking to? Besides, she's obsessed with what she's wearing - and isn't it unpractical for survival training?! Let's put her on the fan fiction forum, where she belongs, and let the Mary Sue hunters get her.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

+ + Princess Mee

With her it's always me, me, me!

[The Saucepan Man]

Well, since you want to get rid of some of the arrogant characters ...You expect me to follow your lead, killer of Mewlips, Girabbits and Giants? Well, think again.

For me, it's going to be ...

+ + SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

... every day until the good-for-nothing idler goes and the poor, misunderstood misfits are avenged!

[Anguirel]

Well, I'm disappointed in the sentimentality of you all in shielding the evil Nell.

But I shall side for the present with Saucie.

++SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

[Bêthberry]

Well now, all of this siding sounds rather like the Battle of the Big Endians and the Little Endians in Gulliver. Who is the least empowered and so therefore not deserving of rejection?

I suggest we look elsewhere, at those who are the most empowered, and there of course we will find those most undeservingly empowered and thus most in need of a healthy dose of rejection. Save the miscreants and the misfits and the misty-eyed!

Anyone up for a little regicide?

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIOUS

[Celuien]

++PRINCESS MEE
Let me put it this way. Princess Mee doesn't mean that her name is Mee. This is a typo. Her name is Princess Me, as in it's all about me. Arrogant and self-absorbed. :D

Away with her!

[Formendacil]

Such a dilemma...

I clearly can't vote Princess Mee, because that's the main bandwaggon thus far, and I don't like to bandwaggon unless it's my idea. :p On the other hand, I do like to actually vote for a candidate who's going to win. ("Strategic voting"). So what to do? I rather like Smith, and I don't ALWAYS want to side with Saucey....

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIOUS

If I need a reason... erm... yeah... he's a git. Really.

[littlemanpoet]

++ Princess Mee

Anguirel and SPM, you have made yourselves my sworn enemies by voting for my symbolic extrication from this game. Have at thee!!! :mad: :)

[Alcarillo]

The royalty on the island are too used to being pampered to do anything useful for their tribes. So, hoping to achieve a double-eviction (mwahaha), I vote for

++King Augustus Bonifacious

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Princess Mee.

It's a miracle such a stuck-up pampered person made it this far.

[littlemanpoet]

Just in case anyone's interested in dealing, I'd be happy to vote for King Augustus Bonifacious tomorrow if you'll vote for Princess Mee today, if needed in order to keep the rascals outnumbered, thus helping for two more days to help keep my alter-ego alive..... Of course, currently there are only two bend-minded, malice-hearted cretins trying to symbolically remove me from play..... :p

[Alcarillo]

Hmmm. . . as long as we get rid of Augustus tomorrow

- - King Augustus Bonifacious

and

++Princess Mee

The spoiled little brat!

[Diamond18]

A decidedly anti-royalty trend formed on day fifteen, and an angry mob, sounding the war drums in light of a continued attack on the Smith, summarily ousted the elven lass:

Princess Mee: 6 votes

Smith of Wootton Major: 2 votes

King Augustus Bonifacius: 2 votes

And so, Princess Mee was sent to live with her wicked step-mother, who hired a woodsman to cut out her self-absorbed little elven heart.


Day the Sixteenth finds 31 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
King Augustus Bonifacius
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[Lhunardawen]

Save Elempi!

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS

I'm not a member of any league, mind you, nor was I hired by our resident Smith of Wootton Major. It's just that...umm...erm...his name is too long.

EDIT: Extra "o" removed. Save Esty from bugs! :D

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I'll jump on that bandwagon and give an additional reason for getting rid of this character:

Ego Augustus Bonifacius Ambrosius Aurelianus Antoninus Pius et Magnificus, dux rex, tyrannus, et Basileus Mediterranearum Partium
How many productive things could his team members have accomplished in the time it takes just to say his name?! Besides, nomen est omen, it starts with "Ego".

++King Augustus Bonifacius

(minus the second o, by the way...)

[Tuor of Gondolin]

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS

It apears the revolution is on.
Could 80-year-old matriarchs be next?
(And what are the views of her son and
daughter-in-law)? :eek:

[Anguirel]

No! Is Royalty to be allowed no Dignity?

Let Cavaliers and King's Men all shout down the insidious Puritans! Down with the meddling Churchmen!

++THE PARSON

[littlemanpoet]

No! Is Royalty to be allowed no Dignity?None whatsoever, thou bend-minded, malice-hearted cretin.

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIOUS

The man had no sense of responsibility, and thought dragon tail cakes were more important than a the right ordering of his kingdom. Away with him!

And thanks, Alcarillo, for being willing to deal. :)

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Could we get rid of that extra "o" in the King's name before the deadline? The misspelling is bugging me!

[Celuien]

++ KING AUGUSTUS BONIFACIUS
On with the Revolution.

(And let's save Elempi. ;))

[Alcarillo]

++King Augustus Bonifacius

*waves red banner* Long live the Revolution!

[littlemanpoet]

Could we get rid of that extra "o" in the King's name before the deadline? The misspelling is bugging me!
But it establishes a delicious pun! Don't you think Tolkien was quite intentional with it?

[Bêthberry]

Well, really I think that the Barrow Wight has hung around quite long enough and could do with a relocation exercise, but I'll save him for another day when he might be more likely to receive that dispatch.

In other words,

++ Augie Bono, Tyrannus... Rex

Assuming that spelling irregularities and alternate name forms do not mitigate against the court's pleasure.

[Diamond18]

But it establishes a delicious pun! Don't you think Tolkien was quite intentional with it?

Um, it was my spelling error.

[littlemanpoet]

Oh. :o Oops. :p

Ah what the heck! Good pun anyway! :D

[Diamond18]

Regicide was the name of the game on day sixteen. The foes of the Smith backed down but cries of "Save Elempi!" still rang acrss the beach, and Auggie Bonnie was made their whipping boy.

King Augustus Bonifacius: 7 votes

The Parson: 1 vote

And so, the King was fed to the Dragon for midday snack.


Day the Seventeenth finds 30 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Herbert Dorkins
Egbert Dorkins

[littlemanpoet]

Hmmmm.... 6 on each team. Whereas there are folks I would preserve, there is nobody I really want gone. However, 'tis time to show that ignorance does beget results, and so I shall vote to decrease the numbers of characters from the one book I have NOT read.

++ Herbert Dorkins

With a name like that, he really has to go. He isn't even his own! I mean, look at the name. "Her" bert. Her who? Not a very self-possessed person. Reason enough!

[Anguirel]

Hmm. Hrrrom. I wonder who I'll pick.

Oh, what about this bright idea!

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

[Tuor of Gondolin]

++ Herbert Dorkins

Do you really need two dorks...I mean, Dorkins?

[Anguirel]

Oh come on. This is starting to be seriously predictable. It's cringeworthy the way you're all giving in to LMP's craven threat of desertion. Unite. Buck the trend. Do something different for a change.

Smith, indeed. What's this loafer's real name, I'd like to know?

[The Saucepan Man]

*snore*

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Unless this game perks up, this shall probably be my last participation on this thread. Seriously, folks, it is incredibly boring when all but a few vote the same way as each other every day ...

[Anguirel]

A promise: If Smith is evicted today, I will not jump on a bandwagon again in this thread. I shall transmogrify entirely into a Radical Free Spirit.

[Formendacil]

A promise: If Smith is evicted today, I will not jump on a bandwagon again in this thread. I shall transmogrify entirely into a Radical Free Spirit.

Sorry... no deal...

A.) I'm already a free agent with a dislike of bandwaggons that aren't my own- and Smith is definitely not my own.

B.) I'm already a Radical (er... well, not-so-Radical) Free Spirit.

Which reminds me...

++ Mew

Should be a cat, not a seagull.

[Formendacil]

Unless this game perks up, this shall probably be my last participation on this thread. Seriously, folks, it is incredibly boring when all but a few vote the same way as each other every day ...

Pulling a LMP, are we, Saucey?

There you have it, I guess: either we keep Sauce or we keep LMP...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, Saucy, if you plan to make good on the idea of voting for the same character every day, the snores won't all be yours! There's nothing wrong with campaigning to save characters one really cares about, is there? I want Smith to stay, and if the only way to accomplish that is by bandwagoning to get other characters expelled instead, why I choose that efficient method! Therefore:

++Herbert Dorkins

Really, if Tolkien hadn't been the author, I wouldn't have bothered to read the Mr. Bliss story, and I don't care nearly as much about its characters.

[The Saucepan Man]

Well, Saucy, if you plan to make good on the idea of voting for the same character every day, the snores won't all be yours!One person (or, at most, two people) voting for the same contestant each day until he or she goes is not boring. That happens frequently in these shows and is my general chosen modus operandi. What is boring is for everyone else to simply vote the same way each day, which (however satisfying for them) removes any element of excitement from the "contest".

The situation is easy to remedy, though. Either Smith is voted off and the game can move on, or people stop voting en masse for the same character just to save him (which is hardly justified, given that only two at most are voting for him) and the snorefest becomes a proper contest.

The third option, as far as I am concerned, is simply to opt out and leave you all to your cosy arrangements. Which, as I said, is a distinct possibility the way things are going.

[The 1,000 Reader]

++Niggle.



Why? Because For is Niggle and he made a reference to a certain Japanese craze and has tainted the forums.

[Bêthberry]

'Tis far, far easier to work Dorkins into a parody than Smith of Wootton Major.

So we are here on a Dorkin plane.
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where insensed wills clash by night.
And Diamond counts the chads by day.
Fall as they may.


For this alone, it must be a double vote.

++ Matthew Arnold

++ Herbert Dorkins

And if the howls of the mer-dogs singing keep me up tonight, I may come to regret this vote.

[Diamond18]

Ah, I love the smell of controversy in the morning. A mini kafuffle arose when some found fault in the voting style of others, but at the end it did not change the result any:

Herbert Dorkins: 4 votes

Smith of Wootton Major: 2 votes

Mew, the Seagull: 2 votes

Niggle: 1 vote

And so, Herbert was spanked with a battledore until his bottom bled and he died from blood less.


Day the Eighteenth finds 29 contestants remaining:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Mew, the Seagull
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

[littlemanpoet]

The situation is easy to remedy, though. Either Smith is voted off and the game can move on, or people stop voting en masse for the same character just to save him (which is hardly justified, given that only two at most are voting for him) and the snorefest becomes a proper contest.

The third option, as far as I am concerned, is simply to opt out and leave you all to your cosy arrangements. Which, as I said, is a distinct possibility the way things are going.

In other words, "THEY need to change but not ME." :rolleyes:

There is a fourth option: realize you can't get Smith (because there are too many who love the character {not LMP but the story character}) and move on to a more realistically removable candidate. Then the game can go on with more interesting possibilities. Why not give it a try?

As for my vote today, I have no problems with evicting....

++ Mew

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes

Leave him in now and he might find
his arrogant soulmate (Saruman)
and together in Middle-earth they might
"Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war" (or whatever).

[The Saucepan Man]

In other words, "THEY need to change but not ME." Precisely. After all, it is THEY that are wrong, not ME. ;)


There is a fourth option: realize you can't get Smith (because there are too many who love the character {not LMP but the story character}) and move on to a more realistically removable candidate.So why not abandon the "contest" and simply appoint Smith the winner without further ado?

+ + SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

:p

[Anguirel]

Quite. Smith for winner!

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Oh, I seem to have voted for Smith to go by accident. What a disaster. Everyone, vote for Smith and you might persuade me to change my vote. How does that sound?

[Celuien]

++ MEW
Messy animals, seagulls. 'Nuff said.

[The Saucepan Man]

Celuin (and others - you know who you are), why not save yourself the time of visiting this thread simply by arranging a standing vote, as follows:

+ + Whichever one littlemanpoet votes for

:p

[Celuien]

Celuin (and others - you know who you are), why not save yourself the time of visiting this thread simply by arranging a standing vote, as follows:

+ + Whichever one littlemanpoet votes for

Well, that would take some of the fun out of come over here to irritate the anti-Smiths. :D

Besides, I'm perfectly willing to vote differently than LMP...if the attacks on Smith cease.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

[The Only Real Estel]

Well, Spm, I think that if you (and Ang in this case) are going to continue to vote for someone until they are gone on the basis of "that's the way the game goes" then I don't think you can fault others for piling on other tribespeople to keep Smith from going. After all...that's the way the game goes.

And it's quite often that a leader emerges (in this case, perhaps lmp) that other people rally to to save their favorite. It's to be expected.

[Formendacil]

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

Poor Esty...

You don't realise, alas, from the PAST Survivor threads, that this is how it inevitably goes. It is ABOUT the characters, of course, but what makes it FUN... er, or Mirthful... is the reasoning that we come up with. Not, of course, that we want to get rid of characters for that REASON, but because of the reactions it gets.

Really, all this personal assault is a part of the game, and not to be taken seriously. However, if you're easily offended, 'tis best indeed to drop out.

Meanwhile... hmm....

I've often identified with SPM and his anti-popular candidate positions, but he's taken such a liking to getting RID of Smith, that I find it rather more amusing to KEEP someone in this juncture.

Therefore,

++ Mew

As for my no-bandwaggons-but-my-own personal rule... well, I started this bandwaggon yesterday, didn't I? :p

[The Saucepan Man]

Apologies to one and all if my style of playing these games has offended anyone. Especially you, Esty. It was not my intention.

My posts are meant entirely in jest, I can assure you and, as Formendacil indicates, these games have recently tended to go this way. I am slightly frustrated by the collaberative effort to save Smith, but in an enjoyable and rather amused way. As Formy accurately identifies, I tend to take an "anti-populist" approach, and so I always tend to end up railing against the majority. For those who have not played these games before, I can understand how my posts may have seemed a bit off. For my part, it is purely part of the game, and not meant personally in any way (I appreciate that lmp has closely associated himself with my nemesis in this particular game, but my Smith votes should not be taken as any reflection on him personally, but rather a prodcut of my anti-populist approach).

I hope that I can tempt Esty back to the thread with an offer not to vote for Smith again ... well not for a few days, at least.

And, to show willing:

- - SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

+ + MEW

Seagulls! Dirty, messy creatures. As anyone who lives close enough to the sea (which seems to include most of the British Isles, these days) will testify.

I do, however, hope that my vote today, and my agreement to hold off on the Smith votes, will be reciprocated with a more open competition in the next few days.

[The Saucepan Man]

Sorry. One more comment.

After all...that's the way the game goes.I will say that I don't think it is best played in that way. The game is much more fun when there are a number of factions - and therefore alliances to be made ... and broken. :D

[The Saucepan Man]

Of course, I coud always pull a Kuru and say that it was always my intention that Smith should win, as and when when he finally does. :D

Has anyone noticed how, in these games, everyone seems to be able to claim great satisfaction with the result, however it goes ...? :rolleyes:

[The Only Real Estel]

Has anyone noticed how, in these games, everyone seems to be able to claim great satisfaction with the result, however it goes ...? :rolleyes:

Why of course...that's the way the game of life is played. ;)

Personally, I don't care much about Mew, and not even that much about Smith but it's Farmer Giles of Ham disrupting competitions and camaraderie by insisting on being called Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo that gets me.

Therefore:

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo

If we could get him out of here we could start concentrating more on survival and less on having to fully and properly pronounce his name. :rolleyes:

[The Saucepan Man]

Introducing variety, eh? Good lad! I am tempted to change my vote ...

But my current vote should stand as a token of my goodwill. Perhaps tomorrow. :D

[The Only Real Estel]

Introducing variety, eh? Good lad! I am tempted to change my vote ...

But my current vote should stand as a token of my goodwill. Perhaps tomorrow.

Well, I guess you could say that. :)

Although out of my ten votes five of them have been for someone who had no votes for them at the time, two were for someone with one vote that I wasn't bandwagoning on, and three were bandwagonning votes (two of which were attempts to save the poor Man in-the-Moon :().

So I've been pretty varietious so far. :D

[The Saucepan Man]

So I've been pretty varietious so far.Aye, and we need more of your kind here, young Estel the varietious.

[Bêthberry]

I think I shall follow up my hint from last night with a full nomination. One can't really call this one an underdog.

++ Mer-dog

You praise yourself too highly, Sauce, if you think my votes were in any way influenced by you. :p Or by lmp. It seems to me that, rather than a bandwagon, there was a remarkable variety of reasons why people wished to keep Smith. A true polysemy of voice rather than homology.

[Alcarillo]

++Egbert Dorkins

His three brothers have all been kicked off, so it's time he's been sent off, too. And besides, his silly name conjures the image of a walking egg in traditional nerd garb (suspenders, glasses, pocket protector, et al). Let him and his brother Fattie brainstorm new names together when they reunite back in civilization.

[Diamond18]

Let him and his brother Fattie brainstorm new names together when they reunite back in civilization.

You do remember that I ruthlessly killed Fattie, don't you? :p

[Alcarillo]

*flips back a few pages*
And so, with cries of, "Tolkien was against fat people, and if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for us!" the judges fed Fattie Dorkins to The Sea-serpent.
I guess he's dead then. Well, Egbert still needs to attend the funeral. And even if they didn't find the body (he was fed to the Sea-Serpent after all), they can still fill his coffin with personal momentos and such.

[Diamond18]

Sorry this is seven and a half hours late -- blame it on the pain in the arse that modding werewolf is, which gave me a splitting headache and sent me to bed early. :rolleyes:

Mew, the Seagull: 4 votes

The Wizard Artaxerxes: 1 vote

Smith of Wootton Major: 1 vote

Farmer Giles of Ham: 1 vote

Mer-dog: 1 vote

Egbert Dorkins: 1 vote


And so, Mew flew away rather anticlimactically.


Day the Ninteenth finds 28 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

[Anguirel]

And so, Mew flew away rather anticlimactically.


Says a lot about the way this show is going, doesn't it?

What we need is to provide a climax. A turning point. A shifting of the ways.

Come on, you know you want to...

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

He may be decent, but he doesn't really say much. He's a sort of half-stoned witness to proceedings...happily stumbling through fairy idylls, being altruistic, that sort of thing. Hardly makes brilliant viewing. Yet what a climax breaking his defenders would be!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie

It's time for some more regicide.
Citizens! Comrades! To the barricades!
Avenge the misunderstood Master of Laketown!

[Celuien]

Introducing some more variety... ;)

++ UIN
Really, this whale is too much trouble. Shouldn't be bringing folk to peek at Elvenhome. Especially not mischievous toy dogs.

And I think the whale is responsible for misspellings of my name. Now I know where the u-i-n instead of u-i-E-n comes from. :p :D

[The Saucepan Man]

You praise yourself too highly, Sauce, if you think my votes were in any way influenced by you.I never claimed such an accolade. I was merely railing against the popular candidate whom, as you say, many seem to have taken to their hearts for a variety of reasons. I can't for the life of me understand why. I find his story terribly dull.

Still, I will honour my pledge.

Avenge the misunderstood Master of Laketown!Now that bring back memories. Aye, I will join your cause.

+ + Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie

He's the real culprit, when it comes to Simth's airy-faeriness ...

[Formendacil]

Says a lot about the way this show is going, doesn't it?

What we need is to provide a climax. A turning point. A shifting of the ways.

Nay, nay, Anguirel!

'Tis far too soon! A climax comes near the end of a tale- not with 28 candidates to go! No, we need to BUILD to the climax, with a growing tension and struggle...

And what better way to do that than to preserve Smith's life?

Celuien has attacked one of my favourite candidates to evict this game... mainly because I actually am familiar, unlike the other Roverandom characters, with who he is. For this great whale is featured in the Book of Lost Tales, and I think that we really ought to send him back to the Legendarium where he belongs.

++ Uin

[Anguirel]

Alright, yeah, like, whateeever.

--SMITH OF LITTLE WHINGING, ++UIN THE MACKEREL

[Alcarillo]

++Egbert Dorkins

C'mon, people, he's the one who should go. He just sits there all day, bemoaning the fates of his brothers and his own to come. It's time he was sent off like the rest of 'em.

[Bêthberry]

Leaving aside the lamentable state of the anti-Smith lachrymosity, for my part, I have been pondering Tuor in Gondolin's argument yesterday concerning wizards. He alone has had the foresight to be foresightful and consider what a character might do rather than what a character has already done. Havoc indeed a meddling wizard might concoct. In short, a day late I concur, and go off to consider who might likely find himself in the belly of a whale.

++The Wizard Artaxerxes

[Diamond18]

Uin, the Whale: 3 votes

Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie: 2 votes

Egbert Dorkins: 1 vote

The Wizard Artaxerxes: 1 vote

And so, Uin was slaughtered for his blubber and was made into a great deal of whatever they use whale blubber for.


Day the Twentieth finds 27 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

[Celuien]

++ ALF

There are still too many kings on this show. Yes, even one king is too many. :p :D

The way I wrote his name should suffice for the rest of my reason. Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie, reminds me of this Alf (http://www.crazyabouttv.com/ImagesTwo/alf.jpg). And I never liked that show. Greatly preferred watching the show with the Dalek-battling Time Lord in the long scarf. And that show is no longer broadcast here (haven't seen it in about 10 years), while the irritating furry creature now has its own talk show (seriously, it does).

Down with Alf.

[Formendacil]

++ The Parson

Because he makes me think of Parsley, and of "Person"- and so is either nondescript or a vegetable.

And because no one has voted for him yet. Can't allow ourselves to appear easily influenced, now can we?

[Diamond18]

Actually Ang voted for him once a few days ago. :D It's scary how I keep track of these things... :rolleyes:

[Formendacil]

Actually Ang voted for him once a few days ago. :D It's scary how I keep track of these things... :rolleyes:

Allow to clarify... today no one has voted for him... So I can't be said to be bandwaggoning, can I?

However, any and all are allowed to bandwaggon WITH me. Yes, I have a bit of a double-standard... ;)

[Anguirel]

Eviction by stealth...

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

[The Only Real Estel]

Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie, reminds me of this Alf (http://www.crazyabouttv.com/ImagesTwo/alf.jpg)

Exactly why I can't bear to seem him go yet.

Why, I used to have a small Alf puppet that was incredibly soft when I was young...one of my favorite "stuffed animals."

I won't bandwagon to save him but please, please, leave him for awhile longer - just for oldtimes sake. :(

[Bêthberry]

In honour of the Barrow Downs birthday tomorrow, let's make this choice a memorable one.

++ The Barrow wight

[Celuien]

Exactly why I can't bear to seem him go yet.

Why, I used to have a small Alf puppet that was incredibly soft when I was young...one of my favorite "stuffed animals."

I won't bandwagon to save him but please, please, leave him for awhile longer - just for oldtimes sake. :(
Aww. Well, just for oldtimes sake...

--ALF

++ The Barrow Wight

For the birthday celebration. ;)

(PS I expect Smith to be left alone for a little while now too. :p)

[littlemanpoet]

++ The Miller

He always was way to negative. And always disagreed with the Parson, a most sensible fellow.

[Alcarillo]

++The Barrow-wight

As I've said before:
We shall overthrow the dictator! Members of the Downs, unite!

*waves banner* :D

[Diamond18]

The Barrow-wight: 3 votes

The Parson: 1 vote

Smith of Wootton Major: 1 vote

The Miller: 1 vote


And so, the Barrow-wight was... erm... how do you kill a wight? You don't. So they sang really annoying rhymes at him until he just left.


Day the Twenty-First finds 26 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

[Estelyn Telcontar]

What, attempted murder of the Wight himself on the very day of the Barrow's anniversary? Fie upon you all! (Make up for this perfidious act by sending him a birthday card here (http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12812).)

[littlemanpoet]

It's time to rid another member from the Farmer Giles group, and I am nothing if not consistent (well, at least sometimes.... :p )

++ The Miller

[Celuien]

++ GRAM THE DOG

A one gram dog is completely useless on a farm. Absurd. ;)

PS Birthday greetings will arrive soon to make up for my helping evict the Barrow Wight yesterday.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

+ + Mer-dog

Enough dogpaddling.
Some dog's got to go!

[Bêthberry]

Doggone, I get to repeat myself.

++ Mer-dog

[Anguirel]

++ROVERANDOM

I'm a cat person...

[The Saucepan Man]

+ + NIGGLE

I don't know. There's just something about him that niggles me.

:rolleyes:

[littlemanpoet]

I'll offer to help anyone get their votee removed from the game in return for a 'to be determined' return favor on another day.....

Any takers?

[Alcarillo]

Here's one!

Help me get rid of Egbert Dorkins, and I'll help you out later.

++Egbert Dorkins

For generally not being of much use to his tribe. And also because his name is ridiculous, and the Mr. Bliss tribe's morale plummets when the other tribes use this fact to tease them. For the sake of the Mr. Bliss tribe's morale, vote Dorkins!

[littlemanpoet]

Fair enough. :)

-- The Miller

++ Egbert Dorkins

Whoever heard of being a relative of a door? or a dormouse?

I'm not so much against "Egbert", however, as it sounds worse to us moderns than it did to folk back in the good old. Still, a Dorkins is a Dorkins, and that's as bad as Dursley!

[Diamond18]

Mer-dog: 2 votes

Egbert Dorkins: 2 votes

Gram: 1 vote

Roverandom: 1 vote

Niggle: 1 vote


And so, as Alcarillo gave a whoop of joy, Egbert was made into an eg-salad sandwich and fed to the Dragon. Mer-dog was sent to swim with the fishes.


Day the Twenty-Second witnesses a shuffling of the tribes, and finds 24 remaining contestants:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith
Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The More Minor Minor Works

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel
Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno

[Tuor of Gondolin]

One hates to niggle over characters nicknames but
the delay in voting out
+ + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith
should come to an end. After all, just how many horses to be
shod can be on the island?

[littlemanpoet]

++ The Miller

Crabby old fellow; always argued against the Parson to boot (always liked the parson, I did .... now see who votes to get the parson gone....).

[Bêthberry]

I am much impressed by Anquirel's anti-dog campaign, being a cat person myself, but I think I shall temporarily suspend that particular line of reasoning and go with one that has frustrated me no end in all my readings.

++ Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Honestly, I wish Tolkien had stuck with Old English and not got all messed up with Latin and impossible consonant clusters.

[Anguirel]

Honestly, I wish Tolkien had stuck with Old English and not got all messed up with Latin and impossible consonant clusters.

How infelicitous.

Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer? Then you'll know why

++THE MILLER

must go.

[The Saucepan Man]

Ah yes, the gloomy fellow with the weird Latin name and the misleading pseudonym.

+ + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Grouchy dispositions and unpronouncable names make for dull viewing.

[Celuien]

I was going to vote for Sunny Sam, but then I saw this:
Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer?
Yes, I have and I know what you're talking about.

++ THE MILLER

[Alcarillo]

Mwahahaha... and so dies the last surviving member of the Dorkins family. Where's an evil smiley when I need one?

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)

For his anakronistic use of a blunderbuss. Off to Mordor with ye!

Edit - I would've voted for the Miller, lmp, to make good on my promise, but it seems that he'll be going anyways. Another day, then.

[Diamond18]

It would seem that the twenty-second day was "Worldwide 'vote for a Farmer Giles character' Day" and at the end two of the Farmer's acquaintances got the boot:

Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith: 3 votes

The Miller: 3 votes

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) : 1 vote


And so, Sunny Sam and The Miller were also fed to the Dragon, who was by now getting quite fat.


Day the Twenty-Third finds 22 remaining contestants:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The More Minor Minor Works

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel
Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno

[Formendacil]

Oh dear.... I missed an entire day...

Alas- and alack!

Hmm... I do like that anti-Roverandom that was on the boil... and I am definitely a cat person as opposed to a dog person...

++ Roverandom

[Tuor of Gondolin]

+ + Moon-dog

The loss of a minor character in the More Minor
Minor Works shouldn't be more then a minor minus.